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A family member weeps and hugs a student who emerged from Taft Union High School in Kern County, California, on Thursday, January 10, 2013, after a student opened fire in a classroom. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

A law enforcement officer stands guard in front of Taft Union High School in Kern County, California, on Thursday, January 10, 2013, after a student opened fire in a classroom. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

This image provided by the Taft Midway Driller/Doug Keeler shows paramedics transporting a student wounded during a shooting Thursday Jan. 10, 2013 at San Joaquin Valley high school in Taft, Calif. Authorities said a student was shot and wounded and another student was taken into custody. (AP Photo/Taft Midway Driller, Doug Keeler)

Teary-eyed Savannah Gregory, 15, emerges from Taft High Union High School in Kern County, California, on Thursday, January 10, 2013, after a student opened fire in a classroom. The school was locked down after the shooting, helping ensure orderly reunions with students and family. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Parents and students gather outside Taft Union High School after a shooting on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2012 in Taft, Calif. The sheriff of Kern County, Calif., says a 16-year-old student shot at a high school is in critical but stable condition. Sheriff Donny Youngblood says the shooter is a student who walked into a class at Taft Union High School Thursday morning and shot the teen with a shotgun, and then fired at another student but missed. A teacher suffered a minor pellet wound to the head. Youngblood says the teacher tried to get other students out a back door, then he and another staff member engaged the shooter in conversation to distract him, and convinced him to put down the gun. (AP Photo/The Bakersfield Californian, Alex Horvath)

This image provided by the Taft Midway Driller/Doug Keeler shows paramedics assisting a student wounded during a shooting Thursday Jan. 10, 2013 at San Joaquin Valley high school in Taft, Calif. Authorities said a student was shot and wounded and another student was taken into custody. (AP Photo/Taft Midway Driller, Doug Keeler)

Police search a home, at right, believed to be the home of the Taft Union High School shooter, who shot one student, in Taft, Calif., Thursday Jan. 10, 2013. The teen victim was in critical but stable condition. The shooter was later talked into surrendering and was taken into custody.(AP Photo/Tracie Cone)

Taft Police Chief Ed Whiting speaks to concerned parents after a shooting at Taft Union High School in Taft, California January 10, 2013. Gunfire erupted on Thursday at a California high school in inland Kern County in a shooting in which two people were injured, county officials said, and media reports indicated the assailant had been arrested. REUTERS/Michael Long/The Taft Independent

Concerned parents listen to Taft Police Chief Ed Whiting after a shooting at Taft Union High School in Taft, California January 10, 2013. Gunfire erupted on Thursday at a California high school in inland Kern County in a shooting in which two people were injured, county officials said, and media reports indicated the assailant had been arrested. REUTERS/Michael Long/The Taft Independent

A unidentified woman cries while standing outside Taft Union High School after a shooting on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2012 in Taft, Calif. The sheriff of Kern County, Calif., says a 16-year-old student shot at a high school is in critical but stable condition. Sheriff Donny Youngblood says the shooter is a student who walked into a class at Taft Union High School Thursday morning and shot the teen with a shotgun, and then fired at another student but missed. A teacher suffered a minor pellet wound to the head. Youngblood says the teacher tried to get other students out a back door, then he and another staff member engaged the shooter in conversation to distract him, and convinced him to put down the gun. (AP Photo/The Bakersfield Californian, Alex Horvath)

This image provided by the Taft Midway Driller/Doug Keeler shows officials taping off an area outside San Joaquin Valley high school in Taft, Calif., Thursday Jan. 10, 2013. Authorities said a student was shot and wounded and another student was taken into custody. (AP Photo/Taft Midway Driller, Doug Keeler)

Unidentified women cry while standing outside Taft Union High School after a shooting on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2012 in Taft, Calif. The sheriff of Kern County, Calif., says a 16-year-old student shot at a high school is in critical but stable condition. Sheriff Donny Youngblood says the shooter is a student who walked into a class at Taft Union High School Thursday morning and shot the teen with a shotgun, and then fired at another student but missed. A teacher suffered a minor pellet wound to the head. Youngblood says the teacher tried to get other students out a back door, then he and another staff member engaged the shooter in conversation to distract him, and convinced him to put down the gun. (AP Photo/The Bakersfield Californian, Alex Horvath)

Students and staff members comfort each other as they emerged from the school building at Taft Union High School in Kern County, California, on Thursday, January 10, 2013, after a student opened fire in a classroom. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Parents, staff and people from law enforcement stand in front of Taft Union High School in Kern County, California, on Thursday, January 10, 2013, after a student opened fire in a classroom. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Teary-eyed mother Mary Jackson, 36, looks on as Jacob Jackson, 15, is hugged by grandmother Sandy Jackson, 57. Parents had spent agonizing hours waiting for their children come out of Taft Union High School in Kern County, California, on Thursday, January 10, 2013, after a student opened fire in a classroom. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Students are lead into the school's football stadium to be released to their waiting family members at Taft Union High School in Kern County, California, on Thursday, January 10, 2013, after a student opened fire in a classroom. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Parents, staff and people from law enforcement stand in front of Taft Union High School in Kern County, California, on Thursday, January 10, 2013, after a student opened fire in a classroom. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

A Kern County Sheriff's deputy escorts a teacher from Taft Union High School in Kern County, California, on Thursday, January 10, 2013, after a student opened fire in a classroom. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Jacob Jackson, 15, hugs his mother Mary Jackson, 36, and grandmother Sandy Jackson, 57, looks on after being safely reunited at Taft Union High School in Kern County, California, on Thursday, January 10, 2013, after a student opened fire in a classroom. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Students and staff members look toward their loved one as they emerge from the school building at Taft Union High School in Kern County, California, on Thursday, January 10, 2013, after a student opened fire in a classroom. The school was locked down after the shooting, helping ensure orderly reunions with students and family. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Photos: Shooting at Taft Union High School in California

TAFT, Calif.—People who know a student suspected of opening fire with a shotgun in a high school classroom in Taft, Calif., say he's a loner often teased by classmates. Authorities haven't released the name of the suspect in Thursday's wounding of a 16-year-old boy at Taft Union High School.